The Dinky Bridge

The Dinky Bridge, not a passenger line, but a workhorse. This little quarry railroad hauled ganister rock down from Jacks Mountain to the brick plants. If not for that ganister and that bridge, Mount Union would have been just another small valley town.

From the record

Passages about this subject, quoted from county histories now in the public domain. Each one names the book and the position in the text so it can be checked. Spelling is as printed.

In 1771, when Bedford county was erected, Barree township included all that part of the present county of Huntingdon lying northwest of Jack's mountain. Since then the townships of Jackson and West and parts of Logan, Oneida and Miller have been taken from Barree, Before the erection of Lc^n and Miller townships, Barree had an average width of four miles, extending from Jackson and West to Oneida, and in length from ten to twelve miles, from the summit of Standing Stone mountain and the Mifflin county line on the southeast to the Center county line and the summit of Tussey's mountain on the northwest. Warrior's ridge crosses it east and south of the center. On one side of this ridge runs the Standing Stone creek and on the other Shaver's creek. One of the first land warrants in the township was issued on what was known as the "Shaver's Creek Manor." The warrant bears date of October 30, 1760. Brady township was erected in April, 1846, from part of Henderson. It is bounded on the northeast and southeast by Mifflin county ; south and southwest by Union township; west by Henderson, and northwest by Henderson and Barree. Jack's mountain on the east and Standing Stone mountain in the center are the principal elevations. The township was named for General Hugh Brady, a distinguished officer in the United States army, who is said to have been bom in the old Standing Stone fort at Huntingdon.John W. Jordan, ed., History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1913) · character 176,142 of the scanned text

BARRE., "Bounded by Dublin, Coleraine, and Bedford townships, as already mentioned, and along the Allegany until a line struck from thence to Jack's Mountain so as to include the waters of Little Juniata and Shaver's and Standing Stone Creeks." These townships of Derry, Dublin, Coleraine, Cumberland, Bedford, and Barre included all of the area of Bedford, Blair, and Huntingdon, a large part of Fulton and Mifflin, and a part of Centre Counties. It is probable that as the eastern limits of Dublin were not clearly defined, a part of what is now Tell township, Huntingdon Co., may have been included in the previously-erected township of Lack. Armagh township was created at January sessions, 1770, from a part of Derry, and included all the territory of that township northwest of Jack's Mountain.J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883) · character 36,803 of the scanned text

BARRE , "Bounded by Dublin, Coleraine and Bedford townships, as already mentioned, and along the Allegheny until a line struck from thence to Jack's Mountain so as to include the waters of Little Juniata and Shaver's and Standing Stone Creeks." These townships of Derry, Dublin, Coleraine, Cumberland, Bedford, and Barre included all the area of Bedford, Blair, and Huntingdon, a large part of Fulton and Mifflin, and a part of Centre counties. It is probable that as the eastern limits of Dublin were not clearly defined a part of what is now Tell township, Huntingdon county, may have been included in the previously erected township of Lack. ARMAGH township was created at January sessions, 1770, from a part of Derry, and included all the territory of that township northwest of Jack's Mountain.Historic Huntingdon, 1767-1909 · character 9,801 of the scanned text

Checked 2026-07-14 · Historic Mount Union collection

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